An election redesign to restore trust in US democracy | Tiana Epps-Johnson

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Election infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, says technologist Tiana Epps-Johnson, and, even worse, election officials are increasingly being attacked simply for doing their jobs. How can the country rebuild trust in its local and national elections? Epps-Johnson describes how the US Alliance for Election Excellence, a nonpartisan collaborative of election officials, technologists, designers and other experts, is working across all 50 states to improve the performance of systems serving 240 million voters, ensuring everyone has access to a fair, trustworthy and modern democratic process. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change. If you want to hear even more about Epps-Johnson's work, stick around after the talk on the "TED Talks Daily" podcast, where she digs deeper into her ideas.)

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0:00.0	Hey Tilly, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:07.6	Democracy all over the world is fragile, and in the United States, it's under threat.
0:12.9	Technologist Tiana Epps Johnson paints the picture of the situation in her talk from Ted
0:18.0	2022, and shares how she's fighting for voting rights in the US.
0:23.2	Tiana and I also got to sit down and chat more after her talk, so stick around after the
0:28.2	talk to hear that.
0:29.8	Her work is part of the Audacious Project, a collaborative funding platform to support
0:33.9	groundbreaking ideas across the world, which this year raised $900 million.
0:40.4	We're sharing this year's winners on Ted Talks Daily a week.
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1:52.6	It's dark days for democracy.
1:55.5	And our crisis is global.
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